Dr. Hyowon Lee
Hyowon Lee is an Assistant Professor at Dublin City University. His research areas are Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and interaction design, particularly focusing on the User Experience (UX), user-interface design and usability issues in applications to support novel usage scenarios. He has designed over 60 novel interactive applications, of which 32 were formally usability-tested and 10 were deployed and used by real users over time (5 of them were multi-year deployments) all of which envision new usage scenarios and interactivity afforded by various experimental multimedia technologies and interaction platforms and techniques. He has disseminated his design rationale, concepts and prototype design artefacts in over 160 peer-reviewed publications including a monograph book Living Digital 2040 (available on Amazon and other major bookstores) which predicted people's interaction with technology with detailed futuristic sketches and prototypes. His publications are uniquely across two major disciplines of Multimedia and Human-Computer Interaction, filling in the knowledge gap faced today by these two communities, and have received over 2,400 citations (h-index 28). Previously he was an Assistant Professor at Singapore University of Technology and Design and a visiting scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He was trained in Active Learning pedagogy and delivered this mode of teaching since 2012, currently a Fellow of AdvanceHE (FHEA) and a holder of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Badge. Since he joined DCU, he has been developing various Active Learning methods suitable for large classes here in DCU. He is a member of DCU's Challenge-Based Learning (CBL) Working Group since 2022, contributing by offering his Active Learning experiences.
Research Interests
Hyowon's expertise is in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Interaction Design, User-Interface Design, Information Visualisation and Usability, in the particular context of applying the design principles and guidelines available in this field to computational technologies such as Multimedia and Language technologies. Currently he is investigating how the existing body of design/usability knowledge should be re-visited in the light of cognitively negative effects people have been experiencing through over-use and over-reliance to our day-to-day technologies; also he is currently studying how HCI knowledge should be more stringently exploited in the design of AR/VR interactivity with the vision of creating more usable AR/VR interaction in the coming years.
Teaching Interests
Hyowon was trained in the Active Learning pedagogy for 8 years (2011 - 2019) at an experimental, government-funded start-up university in Singapore (SUTD) that mandated this pedagogy in all its programmes. This included a 1-year visiting scholarship at MIT in which he observed active learning classes for 2 semesters, attended a 3-month active learning training course at MIT Teaching+Learning Lab, visited Olin College, and involved in a series of co-creation and delivery of large Active Learning modules in SUTD. Since he joined DCU in 2020, he has been experimenting his Active Learning methods in the context of large classes (150 - 220 students sitting in lecture halls), the reflection of which resulted in receiving the AdvanceHE Fellowship (FHEA) in 2022 and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Badge in 2023.